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Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. Monteath and Munt present an engrossing portrait from Rose's birth during the Great War to his death in Berlin shortly after the Wall fell

Among the vast network of POW camps established in Germany during the Second World War were two quite extraordinary camps known as holiday camps, Ferienlager. One of them was for Other Ranks and was located in Genshagen just outside Berlin; the other, for officers, was in Steinburg in Bavaria. This article investigates the origins and development of these camps, which offered their prisoners short-term respite from the rigours of life in work detachments or from the tedium of POW life. It uses the history of these camps, established and run solely for British and Commonwealth POWs, to consider the place of Britain in German strategic thinking during the war. Beyond that, it relates the history of the camps to the changing dynamics of the Third Reich and its 'polycratic' power structures, in particular the competition among the security agencies, the Wehrmacht, and the German Foreign Office for influence in POW matters. Finally, the article seeks to assess the role of the camps in German efforts to win British POWs for the anti-Bolshevik cause, and it offers explanations for the failure to achieve that goal.

The German presence in nineteenth-century South Australia is associated primarily with the immigration of Prussian Lutherans escaping religious persecution in their homeland. Their settlement in the fledgling British colony aided its early, stuttering development; in the longer term it also fitted neatly South Australia's perception of itself as a "paradise of dissent." These Germans took their religion seriously, none more so than the Lutheran missionaries who committed themselves to bringing the Gospel to the indigenous people of the Adelaide plains and, eventually, much further afield as well. In reality, however, the story of the German contribution to the history of this British colony extended far beyond these pious Lutherans. Among those who followed in their wake, whether as settlers or travellers, were Germans of many different backgrounds, who made their way to the Antipodes for a multitude of reasons. In South Australia as much as anywhere, globalising Germany was a multi-facetted project.The intellectual gamut of Germans in South Australia is nowhere more evident than in the realm of anthropology. The missionaries were not alone in displaying a keen interest in the Australian Aborigines. Anthropologists steeped in the empirical tradition that came to dominate the nascent discipline at the end of the nineteenth century also turned their attention to Australia. Indeed, in Germany and elsewhere, Australia occupied a special position in international discourse. The American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan had observed in 1880 that Australian aboriginal societies "now represent the condition of mankind in savagery better than it is elsewhere represented on the earth—a condition now rapidly passing away."

In der Untersuchung der Entwicklung der Beziehungen zwischen der DDR und Australien werden die geltenden Einschränkungen in der Außenpolitik beider Staaten gezeigt. Der Spielraum, in dem die DDR und Australien außenpolitisch agieren konnten, war in der Tat sehr eng. Die Realitäten der Weltordnung während des Kalten Krieges schränkten die Möglichkeiten in allen Bereichen der internationalen Beziehungen - politischen, wirtschaftlichen und auch kulturellen - stark ein. Die Analyse zeigt auch, dass es falsch wäre, die DDR und Australien ausschließlich als Spielbälle der großen Mächte zu verstehen. Auch in dem eng begrenzten Spielraum, dessen sich die beiden Staaten sehr bewusst waren, suchten sie ihre nationalen Interessen konsequent zu verfolgen. Für beide Seiten bedeutete das in der Praxis ein beharrliches wie auch pragmatisches Abtasten der Grenzen des Machbaren und eine ständige Suche nach neuen Möglichkeiten, vor allem im Bereich der Handelsbeziehungen. Für die DDR stand das hartnäckige Streben nach diplomatischer Anerkennung im Vordergrund, die man sich nicht nur von Australien, sondern auch von zahlreichen anderen Ländern erhoffte, die sich ebenfalls den Geboten des westlichen Bündnissystems und speziell der Hallstein-Doktrin unterworfen fühlten. Diese Bemühungen auf beiden Seiten führten tatsächlich zu neuen Entwicklungen, wenn auch nur in begrenztem Umfang. Doch sie ebneten den Weg für einen grundlegenden Wandel in der Zeit ab Anfang der 1970er Jahre, als sich das internationale Klima wesentlich veränderte. (ICF2)